If you are not yet very familiar with affiliate marketing, you may have noticed that bloggers are constantly using acronyms and terms, assuming their readers are all up to speed with the lingo. While you may have figured out the most common ones, some may still be unclear. The following article is a glossary of affiliate marketing acronyms related to pay per click ad campaigns for the Upcoming Super Affiliate in you.

ay Per Click represents an advertising model where advertisers are charged only when ads get clicked by users. Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing and Microsoft adCenter are all based on the Pay Per Click model, and allow you to bid on keywords to advertise content related ads. As a matter of fact, displaying ads on sites such as Google or MSN is absolutely free, even if displayed at the top of the very first page. It’s when a user actually clicks the ad that an advertiser gets charged.